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Electric Vehicle Exchange Management

a technology for electric vehicles and exchange management, applied in the field of electric vehicles, can solve problems such as problems for renters

Pending Publication Date: 2017-05-25
IBM CORP
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The present invention provides a computer-implemented method for managing an electric vehicle exchange. The computer selects an available electric vehicle with the highest exchange score and determines whether the exchange will allow the electric vehicle to reach its destination with another electric vehicle that has insufficient battery charge. If allowed, the computer sends routing information to the navigation system of the electric vehicle to the selected charging station. The technical effect of this invention is to optimize the use of electric vehicles and facilitate their charging along the way.

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This may present a problem for renters when renting electronic vehicles that have limited travel range due to battery charge.

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[0016]The present invention may be a system, a method, and / or a computer program product. The computer program product may include a computer readable storage medium (or media) having computer readable program instructions thereon for causing a processor to carry out aspects of the present invention.

[0017]The computer readable storage medium can be a tangible device that can retain and store instructions for use by an instruction execution device. The computer readable storage medium may be, for example, but is not limited to, an electronic storage device, a magnetic storage device, an optical storage device, an electromagnetic storage device, a semiconductor storage device, or any suitable combination of the foregoing. A non-exhaustive list of more specific examples of the computer readable storage medium includes the following: a portable computer diskette, a hard disk, a random access memory (RAM), a read-only memory (ROM), an erasable programmable read-only memory (EPROM or Flas...

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Abstract

Managing an electric vehicle exchange is provided. An available electric vehicle having a highest exchange score is selected to perform an exchange at a selected charging station with another electric vehicle that has an insufficient battery charge level to reach a travel destination of the another electric vehicle. In response to determining that a current battery charge level of the available electric vehicle is sufficient to reach the travel destination of the another electric vehicle, it is determined whether the exchange will allow the available electric vehicle to reach a travel destination of the available electric vehicle. In response to determining that the exchange will allow the available electric vehicle to reach the travel destination of the available electric vehicle, routing information is sent via a network to a navigation system of the available electric vehicle to the selected charging station.

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BACKGROUND[0001]1. Field[0002]The disclosure relates generally to electric vehicles and more specifically to managing an exchange of an electric vehicle having an insufficient battery charge to reach a user-desired destination with another electric vehicle that has sufficient battery charge to reach the user-desired destination.[0003]2. Description of the Related Art[0004]An electric vehicle, also referred to as an electric drive vehicle, uses one or more electric motors or traction motors for propulsion. Three main types of electric vehicles exist, those that are directly powered from an external power station, those that are powered by stored electricity originally from an external power source, and those that are powered by an on-board electrical generator, such as an engine (e.g., a hybrid electric vehicle), or a hydrogen fuel cell. A hybrid electric vehicle is a type of electric vehicle which combines a conventional internal combustion engine propulsion system with an electric ...

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Patent Type & Authority Applications(United States)
IPC IPC(8): G01C21/34G06Q30/06B60L11/18G01S19/38G07C5/00G07C5/08
CPCG01C21/3438G01C21/3446G01C21/3469G06Q30/0645G07C5/0866B60L11/1861G01S19/38G07C5/008G01C21/3407B60L58/12Y02T90/16Y02T10/70
Inventor BOSS, GREGORY J.HAMILTON, II, RICK A.KOZLOSKI, JAMES R.O'CONNELL, BRIAN M.PICKOVER, CLIFFORD A.
Owner IBM CORP